Re: ssh: problem with publickey authentication

Frans Englich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have trouble getting ssh with publickey authentication to work. The server I 
> am attenmpting to log in to is not setup by me, but everything indicates that 
> 1) my user account exists on the machine(due to public_html page can be 
> visited); and 2) that the public key I sent was properly installed. The 
> server works fine for other users, and although it is possible the sysadmin 
> made a mistake in setting up my account, I think the error is on my side. 
> Perhaps someone can give a hint on where the problem is.
>
> Below series of bash commands are perhaps illuminating. I can't tell more than 
> that authentication seems to fail.
>
> bash-2.05b$ pwd
> /home/frans
> bash-2.05b$ ls .ssh/ -alFh
> total 21K
> drwxr-xr-x    2 frans    users         160 Oct 23 20:26 ./
> drwxrwxrwx   72 frans    users        3.6K Oct 23 20:25 ../
      ^^^^^^

[snip]

Looks to me like the problem may be with the permissions on your home 
directory

Group and other should not have write access to your home directory, and 
your .ssh directory can be mode 700 (drwx------)

Rogan